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Lanier Technical College - Wilbur & Dixie Ramsey Conference Center

Gainesville, Georgia

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Prominent Space

In support of Lanier Technical College’s mission to serve as the foremost workforce development resource in northeast Georgia the new Ramsey Conference Center fosters community engagement, enhances the student life experience on campus and houses the Hospitality Services and Culinary Arts educational programs. The Conference Center is intended to provide much needed exposition, conferencing, meeting and performance space for the regional community.

Utilizing a prominent location on campus the highly efficient facility commands spectacular views of the campus, the adjacent Ramsey Lake, and surrounding foothills of the north Gainesville area. Great care was taken to align building entrances, outdoor terraces, and windows to take advantage of these views.

Venue Highlights

The building layout includes the campus bookstore accessible to students, faculty, staff, and the visiting public. The primary meeting venue is a large ballroom that is sub-dividable into up to eight (8) smaller meeting rooms. This room can support banquets of over 740 seats or lectures of up to 920 seats and is serviceable by a perimeter service corridor linking the room directly to storage, support and the catering kitchen. Culinary Arts is supported by a large culinary arts lab and adjacent catering kitchen. The facility also includes two class/breakout rooms, a large lounge with outdoor terrace, large lobby and pre-function spaces and a hospitality management office suite.

Pond (prime design professional), in association with Stevens & Wilkinson was selected to provide professional design services for the college’s new Gainesville campus. Stevens & Wilkinson supported the overall design team by leading the Programming effort for the entire campus, leading the interior design and furnishing, fixture, and equipment (FF&E) efforts for the entire campus, and providing overall design team project management. Stevens & Wilkinson also provided full architecture and engineering design services as Architect of Record for the Breeden-Giles Hall Administration Building, the Chris Riley Instructional Building, and the Wilbur and Dixie Ramsey Conference Center.

The new Wilbur & Dixie Ramsey Conference Center is two-stories and more than 36,000-square feet.